Children in foster care are up against some of the most difficult situations a child can ever face. They’ve lost their homes and been plucked from their families — sometimes permanently.
Learning how to meet the needs of these vulnerable and traumatised children can quite literally change their lives. Surrounded by chaos, you can be the therapist who changes everything for these kids.
But it starts with learning exactly what they need and how to help.
That’s why Jeanette Yoffe, a child psychotherapist, author, and expert in the areas of adoption & foster care, used her own experience of moving through the system as a child in creating this groundbreaking course! You will walk away with:
A start-to-finish roadmap for therapy with kids and teens in foster care
Proven strategies for building trust, creating emotional safety, and establishing rapport beginning in the first session
Tools to treat abandonment wounds, mitigate shame, increase self-esteem, and construct a coherent life narrative
A complete foster care toolkit with TONS of handouts and ready-touse interventions
Purchase now for this life-changing journey into the world of these hurting kids to become foster care competent and meet the needs of this vulnerable population.
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Objectives
Identify the internal working model of children in foster care and how these models influence their behaviour and relationships.
Differentiate terms, roles, placement types, and systems involved in the foster care system.
Analyse barriers to mental health services for foster youth, including stigma, access issues, and systemic challenges.
Evaluate the impact on brain development, emotional regulation, and attachment styles of children experiencing trauma and abuse.
Develop appropriate intervention plans based on assessment findings for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and attachment disorders in foster youth.
Plan trauma-focused interventions using a complex trauma lens.
Outline
The World of Foster Care Interactive experience: Through the eyes of a foster child
The internal working model of kids in care
Terms, roles, placement types, and systems
Current barriers to mental health services
Trauma, Attachment, and the Brain
Abuse, neglect, and adverse experiences
Childhood trauma: neurological responses
Trauma, dissociation, and “foster care syndrome”
Impact of attachment style
Four areas of attachment loss in foster care
The iceberg effect of unmet needs
The stages of complicated grief
Assessment and Diagnostics
Determine “what happened to them”
Trauma-informed assessment strategies
Tools to differentiate anxiety, depression, PTSD, and attachment disorders
A Framework for Intervention Using a Complex Trauma Lens It Starts with Connection
3 must-use trust-building activities
Non-verbal strategies to build rapport
From fight-flight-freeze to regulation
Therapy sessions: start to finish
Collaborative case conceptualisation
Coping with Feelings, Thoughts, and Sensations
Trauma responses via feelings, thoughts, body, and behaviour
Activities: Hold Onto My Feelings, The Anger Bag, and more
Age-appropriate strategies to address:
Parental mental illness
Substance use disorders
Death
Sexual abuse
Abuse and neglect
ACT and CBT strategies to support selfworth and foster resilience
Construct a Coherent Life Narrative
Intuitive tips for answering kids’ questions about their past
Activities
My Question Box
My Journey Through Placement
My Family Tree
Parts of Me
Life Narrative template
Case study
Treat Anxiety and Depression
Establish locus of control
Navigate the distress hill
EFT and trauma focused strategies for in-the-moment calming
Alternatives to medication
Risk assessment and suicidality
Address Attachment Disorders
Animal-assisted therapy
Interventions to treat abandonment wounds
Attachment focused interventions
It Takes a Village: The Foster Care System
Partner with parents and foster parents
Establish structure and consistency
Nurture and heal attachment trauma
Boundaries and support options
Collaboration: caseworkers, educators, rehab and medical professionals
Being a Foster Care Competent Counselor
Ethical and cultural considerations
The risks and joys involved
Mitigate counter transference
Strategies to prevent compassion fatigue
Limitations of the research and potential risks
Target Audience
Psychologists
Counsellors
Social Workers
Art Therapists
Marriage and Family Therapists
School Social Workers
School Counsellors
Occupational Therapists
Physicians
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Additional Participant CPD
Additional Participant CPD must be purchased for each additional viewer. These viewers will watch the video with the main registrant, but will have individual access to course handouts and certification. The standard price of this program includes certification for main viewer.
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